Otty is a native, GPU-accelerated terminal, designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke — minimal, fast, and beautiful. A terminal worth using on its own. And when you run several code agents like Claude Code or Codex side by side, Otty keeps it calm and clear — tuned for the agents you already run. Optimization, not complexity.
Hey Product Hunt — maker of Otty here.
Funny thing: I was never really a terminal person. Then I started leaning hard on code agents, and overnight the terminal became where I spent my entire day.
My ask was simple — a clean, beautiful, Ghostty-like terminal with vertical tabs. But everything I tried did the opposite: to bolt agents on, they piled in buttons, panels, and labels until the terminal itself felt heavier and worse to use. Most "AI terminals" just staple AI on top and never improve the terminal underneath.
So I built Otty — tuned for code agents, without making the UI more complex. I use it every single day, so I've poured that time into the terminal itself: smooth caret & scrolling, clickable links & file paths, session recovery (yes — including Claude Code and tmux sessions), open-quickly, drag-and-drop split panes, proper box-drawing, and a lot more. The goal was a terminal that's genuinely good to use — not one that only exists to babysit agents.
If you run code agents: what finally made you switch terminals — or what's holding you back? That's exactly what I'm building around. 🙏
GPU-accelerated and designed to stay clean even with code agents running — that's a real differentiator. How does Otty compare to Ghostty on rendering performance and resource usage in your testing?
Session recovery, especially for Claude Code/tmux sessions, is the detail that would make me actually try switching terminals. Agent work is full of long-running context, so losing a pane is much more painful than it used to be. Curious how far recovery goes today: process state, scrollback, layout, or all of it?
A Mac-native terminal that's actually thoughtful about rendering is rare. We've spent time debugging unicode and escape code rendering bugs in iTerm configs that just don't exist in native apps. How's the AI integration scoped: is it a sidebar assistant, inline suggestions, or does it actually intercept command output to annotate it?
The terminal only became more important once agent work moved into long-running sessions. Calm panes, recovery, and low-friction context switching matter more than another AI panel bolted on top. Native Mac feel is a real product decision here.
GPU-accelerated rendering in a terminal is the kind of thing that sounds like over-engineering until you're actually running five agent processes in split panes and watching your old terminal stutter. The focus on agent-forward UX is a real differentiator. What rendering backend are you using for the GPU layer? And does the split pane model support custom layouts per workspace?
Love it!
About Otty on Product Hunt
“A Mac native and beautiful terminal emulator”
Otty launched on Product Hunt on June 18th, 2026 and earned 136 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Otty is a native, GPU-accelerated terminal, designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke — minimal, fast, and beautiful. A terminal worth using on its own. And when you run several code agents like Claude Code or Codex side by side, Otty keeps it calm and clear — tuned for the agents you already run. Optimization, not complexity.
Otty was featured in Developer Tools (514.3k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (471.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 173.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Otty?
Otty was hunted by Abner Lee. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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